Happy Tuesday! With Labor Day behind us, we've entered the home stretch for the midterm elections, which are just eight weeks away. President Trump isn't on the ballot this year, but he appears intent ...
In a 5-4 ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed construction to continue on President Trump’s new White House ballroom. The court rejected a challenge from the National Trust for Historic ...
The effects of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s extraordinary intervention in the bond market faded quickly on Thursday. One day after Bessent announced that the Treasury Department would at least ...
The yield on benchmark 30-year Treasury bonds briefly hit a fresh 19-year high on Tuesday before pulling back slightly. The recent surge that lifted the 30-year Treasury yield above 5.3%, the highest ...
Over the 12 months ending in July, prescription drug prices saw their biggest annual drop in more than 60 years, according to inflation data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday. While ...
The federal budget deficit came to an estimated $1.8 trillion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year, according to the latest monthly analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. The total is ...
Happy Monday! July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures across the 48 states averaged ...
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss approaches to addressing Social Security’s financial challenges, most notably a new bipartisan plan called the PROMISE Act. It got ...
National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., are now set to stay there through the end of President Trump’s term, and the extension of their deployment from October 2026 through January 2029 ...
Happy Monday! The Senate has plenty on its agenda this week before it heads out for a scheduled summer break. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is looking to tackle a list of legislative priorities, ...
Happy Thursday! President Trump indicated Thursday that he's prioritizing a tax audit immunity deal that benefits him and his family over having Todd Blanche, his nominee for attorney general, ...
President Trump said Thursday that he is willing to temporarily withdraw his nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general rather than give in to the demands from two Senate Republicans who are ...